Turpentine-scraper.



A TTOHNEYS No. 890,449. PATENTED JUNE 9, 1908. G. S. PETTEWAY & L. W. DUVAL.

TURPENTINB SGRAPER. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 16, 1908.

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WAY and Lows W. DUVAL, citizens of the UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE S. PETTEWAY AND LOUIS W. DUVAL, OF OOALA, FLORIDA.

TURPENTINE-SCRAPER.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE S. PETTE- United States, and residents of Ocala, in the county of Marion and State of Florida, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in Turpentine-Scrapers, of which the l followingis a specification.

This invention is an improvement in Lurpentine scrapers, and consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a perspective view of a scraper embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section thereof, and Figs. 3 and 4 are detail perspective views of the box sections.

The invention has for an object to provide means for scraping pine trees in order to se- 1 cure the accumulated resin and pitch, and to avoid the loss resulting from the scattering of the material on the ground. The device as shown comprises a blade A having its shank A seated in a notch B in one side of the upper end of the handle stick B, which may be of any suitable length, and the blade is secured to the handle by the bolts C and C provided at their inner ends with washers C and nuts C as best shown in Fig. 2 of the drawing. The blade A is also secured to the back bar D of a yoke D by means of rivets E, and the said yoke D is provided with side bars D which extend along the opposite sides of the box and are secured thereto by the rivets H, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing. The yoke extends below the upper edge of i the box so that the back plate F at its upper edge at its middle portion at F 2 over the back bar of the yoke and against the blade A so that the material scraped by the said blade will be directed into the box and will not accumulate back of the upper edge of the back late, as will be understood from Figs. 2 ancF i of the drawing.

The box is made in two sections F and G, the front section G having a front plate G, side plates G and a bottom plate G, and the section F having the back plate F, the side plates F, the bottom plate F projecting forwardly from the lower edge of the back I may be bent plate F and the bottom wings F projecting inwardly from the lower edges of the side plates of the section F and overlapping the bottom plate 'F, as will be understood from Figs. 2 and 4; l

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed January 16, 1908.

Patented June 9, 1908. Serial No. 411,197.

are bent from plates or blanks and when fitted together the bottom wings F are folded in over the bottom plate F of the section F and the bottom plate G of the section G extends below the bottom plate F of the section F, and the parts are secured by rivets H passed through the holes H. At the same time the side plates G of the section G overlap the side plates F of the section F and are secured thereto at their lower ends by the rivets H and at their upper ends by the rivets H and H, the rivets H also operating to secure the front ends of the side bars D of the yoke D in connection with the box sections, as best shown in Fig. 1. This construction is simple, facilitates the construction of the box, and the arrangement of the yoke is such as to strengthen the upper, open end of the box and to firmly connect the box and blade in operative position.

The construction is simple, can be cheaply made, will be durable, and is efficient for the purpose for which it is designed.

In the use of the old form of scraper, it is pulled downward on the surface of the face of the tree commencing at the top of the face and pulling the turpentine off allowing it to fall to the base of the tree where a large box is usually placed to catch as much as possible of the falling turpentine, and this box must be moved, every point below another face, and this involves considerable time and trouble and much of the turpentine will fall on the ground. In the use of the improved box it is shoved up the surface of the tree and the box will catch all the turpentine that is scraped off, and frequently will hold all that accumulates on several faces of the tree. Turpentine taken off with the improved scraper is much cleaner than that taken off with the old scraper as no portion of it touches the ground and no trash or dirtis gathered up with the turpentine, which therefore makes it a higher grade. The new device has been used practically with much success and is found efficient in gathering turpentine in the manner before described.

We claim Q 1. A scraper, comprising a handle having a recess in one side at its upper end, a blade having its shank secured in said recess, a box fitting against the handle and said blade and e in sections having side plates and botplates overlapping each other and setime a face is scraped, to a the box,

- the upper edge of the cured together, a yoke having side bars extending along the opposite sides of the box and secured thereto and also having a crossbar extending along the outer face of the back plate of the box and between the same and the blade and below the upper edge of the back plate of the latter being bent over the said cross-bar of the yoke, and against the blade, and means securing the oke in connection with the blade and back plate of the box, all substantially as set forth.

2. A scraper, comprising a handle, a blade, a box alongside the blade, and a bar extending between the blade and box and below box, said edge being bent back over the said bar against the blade, substantially as set forth.

3. A scraper comprising a handle, a box, a blade secured to the handle alongside the box and extending above the same, and a yoke embracing the box and secured to the blade, substantially as set forth.

4:. A scraper, comprising a box, a handle, a

blade secured to the handle, and a yoke having its side bars secured to the box and its crossbar secured to the box and to the blade, substantially as set forth.

5. A scraper, comprising a box made in sections with the side plates overlapping, a blade, and handle secured to said box, and a yoke having a cross-bar, and side bars, the latter extending across the joint between the side plates of the box, and means securing said side bars to the overlapping plates of the box sections, substantially as set forth.

6. A scraper comprising a box made in front and back sections, a handle and blade secured to the back section, and a yoke secured to the blade and to the front and back sections, substantially as set forth.

GEORGE S. PETTEVAY. LOUIS W. DUVAL.

Witnesses:

GEo. W. MARTIN, E. C. BENNETT. 

